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FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 36.

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  • Frost has injured the coffee crop in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Spring wheat makes a very bad showing in Canada.
  • The Republicans have carried the State of Maine by large majorities.
  • The prospects are still gloomy in the manufacturing interests.
  • Spain is becoming much alarmed at the prospect of serious trouble in Cuba.
  • Many people are reported drowned in the recent inundation at St. Petersburg.
  • The insurrection in Hayti was supposed to be quelled, but fighting is still going on.
  • John G. Saxe has done no literary work for three years; cause, nervous prostration.
  • Mayor-elect Kalloch, of San Francisco, is recovering. De Young is out on $25,000 bail.
  • Alexander Mitchell, Democrat, has declined the nomination for Governor of Wisconsin.
  • New complications are arising in Europe. Germany and Austria are on loving terms, and Russia is nihil.
  • A committee of the legislature of Georgia has reported a resolution to impeach the Treasurer of the State.
  • Matters are seriously unsettled in Afghanistan. The Russians are charged with inciting the recent outbreak.
  • Three men were taken from jail in Mendocino county, on the 3d inst., and lynched. They were charged with larceny.
  • Both gold and emigrants are fast coming to the United States from Great Britain. Only the emigrants do not have the gold.
  • Yellow fever continues without abatement in Memphis, though it is not spreading much to other cities. It is severe in the West Indies.
  • The ship Frank F. Curling, of Thomaston, Maine, was struck by a hurricane southwest of Cape Horn, and lost. The crew were rescued.
  • Gen. Grant favors the Nicaragua canal, and will probably become president of that enterprise. De Lessep's Panama scheme has collapsed.
  • An exchange says the local option law has closed the saloons in nearly four hundred towns in Kentucky; which, if true, is decidedly good for the Bourbon State.
  • The trial of the Chisholm murderers in Mississippi has brought out the fact that indictments have lain two years without any arrests being made upon them.
  • The number of ships that have entered the golden gate lately is larger than ever before. They are mostly large vessels, and many are coming to load with wheat.
  • One span of the bridge over the Kansas River at Lawrence fell on the 9th inst. A drove of cattle was on the bridge. Mr. Young and son, with team, went down, but no life was lost.
  • The Victoria Regia, the Queen of water-lilies, is opening flowers every few days in the Lick Conservatory, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Its leaves are now six feet, eight inches in diameter.
  • The New York State Democratic Convention ended in a break-up. John C. Jacobs was first nominated for Governor, but declined. Gov. Robinson was re-nominated, and the Tammany delegation retired and nominated John Kelly of New York City.
  • Geo. W. Jones, once U. S. Senator from Iowa, by reason of poverty asks to be elected sheriff of Dubuque county. He is 80 years old. The old folks will remember him as having been connected with the duel in which Cilley of Maine was murdered by Graves of Virginia, some forty years ago.
  • The Norwegian bark Columbia, from London for Quebec, was struck by a large fish or sea monster, and had a hole knocked in her bottom, which caused her to sink in half an hour. The water around the bark became bloody immediately after the shock was felt. A steamship rescued the crew.
  • Kearney said he would have Gen. Grant burned in effigy on the sand lot when he arrived in San Francisco. In answer to the storm of indignation, he said if they were interfered with, there were those ready to strike from one end of the country to the other, and we would see a worse time than that of the French revolution.
  • The steamship Belgenland at Philadelphia, Sept. 11, from Antwerp, reports the sinking of the bark Laura, from Porto Rico for Queenstown with sugar, and the loss of the second mate, carpenter, steward and three seamen of the bark. Among the passengers of the Belgenland are Baron Grundel, Belgian Minister to Mexico; Dr. John Wilson, United States Consul at Brussels, and J. Riley Weaver, United States Consul at Vienna.
  • An Atlanta (Ga.) special says: Reports of a fatal fever raging in the counties of Polk, Paulding, and Harrison have not been overdrawn. Within a few days over fifty men died in an exclusively rural population. Those attacked suffer horribly, the tongue turning black and swelling double the size, and blood oozing from their mouth and ears. Immediately after death the bodies become spotted and discolored. Of twenty-nine cases under one physician's treatment, not one recovered. The greatest alarm and distress prevails, and it is steadily spreading.